Flexibility, quality and competitiveness are all hallelujah words in current debate about national economic per formance. The achievement of more flexibility or higher quality or greater competitiveness, it is said, will help the UK become a more successful economy. At the same time increased...

Flexibility, quality and competitiveness are all hallelujah words in current debate about national economic per formance. The achievement of more flexibility or higher quality or greater competitiveness, it is said, will help the UK become a more successful economy. At the same time increased...